Synthese Des Arts: Die Verbindung Von Architektur Und Kunst Bei Den Regierungsbauten Auf Der Hardthohe in Bonn/The Combination of Architecture and Art ... Government Buildings on the Hardthohe in Bonn - Hardcover

Holzinger, Johannes Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3932565096 ISBN 13: 9783932565090

Publisher: Edition Axel Menges, 2002

Synopsis

Text in English and German. Linking art and architecture is one of the great Utopias of our century. Art has been released from its traditional bonds and sees itself faced with a world that has made systems independent to the extent that a link between art and building based on the idea of unity is no longer admissible. The collapse of our 'world into pieces' also typifies that situation of the arts looking for new orders. Now artist-architect Johannes Peter Holzinger, in co-operation with artists Eberhard Fiebig, Ottmar Horl/Formalhaut, Leonardo Mosso, Norbert Muller-Everling, Ansgar Nierhoff and Andreas Sobeck, working on the government buildings on the Hardthohe in Bonn, has succeeded in creating 'an avant-garde landmark that shows in the interplay of the arts that the avant-garde can also work positively in a team', as Dieter Ronte, director of the Stadtisches Kunstmuseum Bonn, put it in a contribution to this book. Holzinger links heterogeneous artistic positions in attempting an order of the different. The art in the outer areas of the complex mediates between the surroundings and the buildings. The visual signing system leads further into the centres, which are the same shape, of the existing administrative buildings, and creates some thing that is unmistakable there. The special structures designed by Holzinger, an intermediate form of architecture and landscape developed from the relief, include the earth itself, and in the casino architecture and art combine to form an indissoluble unit.

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About the Author

Johannes Peter Holzinger was born in Bad Nauheim in 1936. From 1954 to 1957 he studied architecture at the Stadelschule in Frankfurt am Main. After a scholarship visit to the Deutsche Akademie Villa Massimo in Rome he founded, in 1965, a "planning association for new forms of the environment", together with Zero artist Hermann Goepfert, who has since died. One of the most successful results of his work with Goepfert was a new design for the Schlo-park in Karlsruhe for the Bundesgartenschau in 1967, which won a major German architectural prize, the Hugo-Haring-Preis. From 1991 Holzinger has directed the course for art and public space at the Akademie der Bildenden Kunste in Nuremberg.

Edition details

• Publisher: Edition Axel Menges
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 3932565096
• ISBN 13: 9783932565090
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 72